If Porco doesn’t like his story fictionalized …

The Capital Region’s own rock-star noir author, Vincent Zandri, weighs in on the Christopher Porco don’t-fictionalize-my-story saga. Many of you may know the globe-trotting Zandri for his hot-selling novels replete with stories, scenes and characters plucked from upstate New York. Check out Vince’s cool website in the link above. (Full disclosure: Vince and I are old high school buddies.) If Porco doesn’t like the liberties the Lifetime Network takes with his story (Romeo Killer movie airs 8 p.m. tonight), he’s probably going to have a Cape Fear reaction to Vince’s twist on the story.In Murder by Moonlight, Vincent Zandri’s cunning detective Dick Moonlight returns with his toughest case yet: proving an open-and-shut murder investigation isn’t over at all.
Joan Parker is the last woman private eye Dick Moonlight would ever expect to see in his Albany office. From the right side of the tracks—neighboring Bethlehem—she bears her upper class upbringing as effortlessly as a string of pearls. She also bears a scar running down her head and face—a brutal reminder of the ax attack that took the life of her husband. Her twenty-one-year-old son, Christopher, now sits in jail charged with the crime.
According to the official report—based on Joan’s answers to police when they arrived at the house and found her barely alive—she identified Christopher as the culprit. But sitting in Moonlight’s office, she reveals that she has no recollection of the event, yet is certain of one thing: Christopher didn’t do it.
Moonlight knows a thing or two about being nearly dead. And he also knows the tragedy of the police jumping to the wrong conclusions—a past case of a falsely accused client still haunts him—so he agrees to take the job and get to the truth of what happened that day. At first the trail of clues—from the crime scene to Joan’s original accusation—keeps the finger pointed at Christopher. But soon Moonlight turns up something he never expected, something more sinister than anything he’s ever come up against.